diff --git a/R/getRDB1Data.r b/R/getRDB1Data.r
index d10c3d2c23a845ca95092aa2e23425d142d5770b..0218604153decc39ce9706934810de4faf3614b5 100644
--- a/R/getRDB1Data.r
+++ b/R/getRDB1Data.r
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ getRDB1Data <- function(obs_url,asDateTime=FALSE){
     row.names(data) <- NULL
     return(data)
   } else {
-    message(paste("URL caused a warning:", obs_url))
+    message(paste("URL caused an error:", obs_url))
     message("Content-Type=",h$value()["Content-Type"])
   }
 }